{"id":1923312,"date":"2023-05-03T05:56:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T09:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-wasnt-very-happy-harry-potter-darling-explains-long-absence-from-hollywood\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T05:59:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T09:59:59","slug":"i-wasnt-very-happy-harry-potter-darling-explains-long-absence-from-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-wasnt-very-happy-harry-potter-darling-explains-long-absence-from-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Harry Potter&#8217; star reveals reason for Hollywood hiatus: &#8216;I was unhappy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-wasnt-very-happy-harry-potter-darling-explains-long-absence-from-hollywood%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1923312&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Emma Watson Reveals Why She Stepped Away from Hollywood<\/h2>\n<p>Actress Emma Watson shot to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/olivia-newotn-john-dies-at-73\/\" title=\"Olivia Newotn-John Dies at 73\">international stardom<\/a> when she took on the role of brilliant young witch Hermione Granger in the film adaptations of J.K. Rowling\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/alan-rickmans-diary-dishes-all-the-dirt-on-his-harry-potter-costars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harry Potter<\/a>\u201d \u2014 but she only just revealed why, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-wasnt-very-happy-harry-potter-darling-explains-long-absence-from-hollywood\/\" title=\"'Harry Potter' star reveals reason for Hollywood hiatus: 'I was unhappy'\">earning critical acclaim<\/a> for later roles, she essentially vanished from Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/woke-brat-emma-watson-slammed-for-apparent-swipe-at-j-k-rowling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watson<\/a>, who was just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/evidence-of-foreign-influence-in-2020-election-nevada-secretary-of-state-caught-sending-voter-data-list-to-pakistani-firm-linked-to-isi\/\" title=\"Evidence of Foreign Influence in 2020 Election: Nevada Secretary of State Caught Sending Voter Data List to Pakistani Firm Linked to ISI\">ten years<\/a> old when she first donned her Hogwarts robes for \u201cHarry Potter and the Sorcerer\u2019s Stone,\u201d hasn\u2019t appeared on screen since \u201cLittle Women\u201d \u2014 which wrapped in 2018 and was released in 2019. She explained the reason she had stepped away from acting during an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/045a2d24-f207-4cc3-9a55-5d61a9633bf0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> with the Financial Times that was published Friday: she just wasn\u2019t enjoying it.<\/p>\n<h3>Feeling Caged and Frustrated<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t very happy, if I\u2019m being honest. I think I felt a bit caged,\u201d Watson said. \u201cThe thing I found really hard was that I had to go out and sell something that I really didn\u2019t have very much control over. To stand in front of a film and have every journalist be able to say, \u2018How does this align with your viewpoint?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was very difficult to have to be the face and the spokesperson for things where I didn\u2019t get to be involved in the process. I was held accountable in a way that I began to find really frustrating, because I didn\u2019t have a voice, I didn\u2019t have a say,\u201d Watson continued. \u201cAnd I started to realize that I only wanted to stand in front of things where if someone was going to give me flak about it, I could say, in a way that didn\u2019t make me hate myself, \u2018Yes, I screwed up, it was my decision, I should have done better.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Not Done with Acting Yet<\/h3>\n<p>That\u2019s not to say that Watson is finished with acting, she said, noting that if the right project were to come along, she would certainly jump at the chance to go back to movies: \u201cYes, absolutely. But I\u2019m happy to sit and wait for the next right thing. I love what I do. It\u2019s finding a way to do it where I don\u2019t have to fracture myself into different faces and people. And I just don\u2019t want to switch into robot mode any more.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Trying Her Hand at Directing<\/h3>\n<p>She has already tried her hand at directing, working behind the scenes late last year to write and direct an ad campaign for Prada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople always told me I should direct and produce, even when I was on Potter. I was worried it was just technical, not creative, and I couldn\u2019t bring what I think is probably my skill set,\u201d Watson explained, adding that the tipping point had been \u201cfriends asking for favors \u2013 \u2018I need to do a photo shoot\u2019 or \u2018I\u2019m making a video.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Get the Daily Wire App<\/h3>\n<p><b><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-7429\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat made me realize I actually know quite a lot about that,\u201d she said. \u201cBeing a director seemed unattainable. I don\u2019t think I had any confidence in that. I know it seems weird. I mean, I grew up on a film set.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Emma Watson shot to international stardom when she took on the role of brilliant young witch Hermione Granger in the film adaptations of J.K. Rowling\u2019s \u201cHarry Potter\u201d \u2014 but she only just revealed why, after earning critical acclaim for later roles, she essentially vanished from Hollywood. Watson, who was just ten years old when<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1923313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7156,5675,20738,4361,6172,5982,5114,5229,16882],"class_list":["post-1923312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-i","tag-harry","tag-hiatus","tag-hollywood","tag-potter","tag-reason","tag-reveals","tag-star","tag-unhappy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1923313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}